y first job was drawing comic books. I think a friend of my mother’s had a friend who was an editor at Fiction House, a small publisher whose offices were at Eighth Avenue and 34th Street over a Horn ...

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I’m not good at drawing. In fact, I’m positively dreadful. A few years ago, I took a watercolor class. My mother would have been proud of what I did—if I were still in the third grade, not a late ...

Imagine someone told you to draw a pig and a truck. Maybe you’d sketch this: Easy enough. But then, imagine you were asked to draw a pig truck. You, a human, would intuitively understand how to mix ...

Does what you draw, and how you draw it, reveal who you are? There are a whole battery of psychological tests that give people art projects, and interpret their results. Learn what people can figure ...

Last month, I asked Slate readers to send me their hand-drawn maps. The request was part of my series on signs, the tools that professionals use to orient us and direct us from point A to point B. But ...

The world of Cozy Grove looks like the inside of a sketchbook. Its detailed illustrations, rich with color and varied linework, slowly fade from full color to muted, almost unfinished scenes. These ...